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RIGOLETTO

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OPERA Composer: Giuseppe Verdi Academy Project, Teatro alla Scala Production; Italian Sept. 2nd- 22nd A tragic tale, the story of Rigoletto revolves around the libertine Duke of Mantua and his hunchbacked Court Jester, Rigoletto, whose beautiful daughter, Gilda, falls prey to a dreadful curse. Rigoletto, fearing for his daughter's safety, has kept her hidden away. Unbeknownst to Rigoletto, Gilda has fallen in love with the Duke who disguised himself as a poor student. The Duke's entourage kidnaps Gilda, thinking that she is Rigoletto's mistress, and it is revealed that she is Rigoletto's daughter. Seduced and shamed, Gilda returns home with her father. Determined to show the Duke's true debauchery, he brings Gilda to a tavern to see the Duke seducing another woman. Gilda vows that she still loves him and Rigoletto sends her home. Meanwhile, Rigoletto has hired an assassin to kill the Duke, but Gilda, in attempt to save the Duke, is stabbed instead. Rigoletto, thinking he has the body of the Duke, finds Gilda near death, asking for forgiveness. Rigoletto is haunted by the curse.

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WOOLF WORKS (I NOW, I THEN - BECOMINGS - TUESDAY)

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BALLET Composer: Max Richter Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company and Orchestra Royal Ballet Production, Covent Garden, Londra, 2015, Italian Premiere April 7th- 20th

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La Cenerentola

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OPERA Composer: Gioachino Rossini Teatro alla Scala Production; Italian Feb. 10th- April 5th Inspired by the fairy tale, Cendrillon, Cenerentola follows the story of a young woman who is forced to act as a servant to her mean stepfather and ungrateful stepsisters. Prince Ramiro is going house to house to find the most beautiful woman for his wife. Prince Ramiro disguises himself as his valet and enters to house to observe the family. Immediately charmed by Cenerentola, he does not notice the stepsisters. At the ball, while Dandini, disguised as the Prince, is surrounded by the stepsisters, Prince Ramiro is once again taken by Cenerentola, who enters the ball veiled. She gives the Prince a bracelet and instructs him to find her. The Prince immediately calls his men together to track down this beautiful mystery women. Finally, the Prince finds Cenerentola at her home, back in servant's clothes. Cenerentola leaves with the Prince and becomes the new Princess. Even though her family has been cruel, she forgives them and finds happiness with her new husband.

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ARIADNE AUF NAXOS

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OPERA: Composer: Richard Strauss Teatro alla Scala New Production; German April 23rd- June 22nd A play within a play, Ariadne auf Naxos opens backstage before a performance for the wealthiest man in Vienna. Two troupes will perform; one a classical opera by a new composer, the other an Italian buffo commedia dell'arte troupe. At the last minute, they are told the performances will happen simultaneously, and the performers scramble to attempt to fit the two completely opposite performances together. Comedically intertwined, the two performance styles are intertwined, as we watch the actors fight for the limelight.

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THE KABUKI

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BALLET Composer: Toshiro Mayuzumi Tokyo Ballet Company July 11th-12th

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L'ELISIR D'AMORE

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OPERA Composer: Gaetano Donizetti Teatro alla Scala Production; Italian Sept. 10th- Oct. 10th L'elisir d'amore follows Adina, the beautiful but fickle landowner, and Nemorino, the clumsy but lovable young man, through the ups and downs of their love story. Nemorino is madly in love with Adina, but Adina holds him at arm's length, feigning indifference to tease him. Over and over again, he professes his love to her, but she tells him to move on. Adina teases him by pretending to marry the pompous Sergeant Belcore. Desperate, Nemorino purchases an "elixir" that will make Adina fall in love with him, which actually is red wine that simply makes him tipsy. Convinced that she will fall for him, he begins to pretend not to love her anymore, which causes Adina to act out of jealousy, moving the wedding forward. After many twists and turns, Adina finally realizes and confesses her love for Nemorino, and they rejoice with the town.

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DIE ÄGYPTISCHE HELENA

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OPERA Composer: Richard Strauss Teatro alla Scala New Production; German Nov. 9th- 29th Helen of Troy, the wife of Menelaus, is trapped in Egypt and then abducted by Paris. In this version of the tale, it turns out Paris has actually run off with a phantom Helen created through the goddess Hera, while the real Helen remains captive in Egypt until she is eventually reunited with her husband.

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GEORGE BALANCHINE'S THE NUTCRACKER ®

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BALLET Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Teatro alla Scala New Production; Italian Premiere Dec. 16th 2018- Jan 15th

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QUARTETT

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OPERA Composer: Luca Francesconi Teatro alla Scala Production (world premiere 2011); English Oct. 5th- Oct. 22nd Heiner Müller's idea centres on the relationship of a couple: a man and a woman enclosed in a room. They evidently have a past, as well as a turbulent present; there is a kind of façade that clearly serves to hide certain things, but it is torn apart by the conflict that lies behind it and that explodes in a fierce, indeed cruel manner. It is clear that something sinister lies in the background: manipulation, betrayal, jealousy. Based on the play "The Quartet." Scrambling the original epistolary text, plot and characters and mixing live and recorded sound, it shows Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil berating, vilifying, taunting and recriminating with each other in an abusive but compulsive truth-telling game in the course of which they impersonate two of their sexual victims (hence the title).

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BALANCHINE / KYLIÁN / BÉJART

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BALLET Composers: Georges Bizet / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Maurice Ravel Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company and Orchestra Nov. 16th- 30th

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IDOMENEO

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OPERA Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Teatro alla Scala New Production; Italian May 16th- June 5th Idomeneo, the King of Crete, is returning to Greece after years away at the Trojan War. On his way home, his ship sinks, and he survives only due to the grace of Neptune. In return, Idomeneo agrees to sacrifice the first mortal he finds to Neptune. It so happens that the first mortal that rushes to see him is his own son, Idamente. Previously, to the dismay of Elettra, Idamente has fallen in love with Ilia, a Trojan princess. As Idomeneo is about to allow his own son to be sacrificed, Neptune intervenes and allows Idamente to survive as long as he is allowed to take over the throne, in place of his father.

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WINTERREISE

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BALLET Composer: Franz Schubert World Premiere, Teatro alla Scala New Production Jan 24th- Mar 9th

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PRIMA LA MUSICA POI LE PAROLE / GIANNI SCHICCHI

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OPERA Composers: Antonio Salieri / Giacomo Puccini Academy Project, Teatro alla Scala New Production; Italian July 6th- 19th 1st Count Opizio contracts a new opera to be written to be ready in four days. The composer has already created the score, but the poet is suffering from writer's block and resorts to trying to adapt previous verses he has written to the existing music. The composer and poet are interrupted when Eleonora, the prima donna hired by the Count, enters and delivers a sample of her vocal artistry. Together with the Poet and the Maestro, she acts out a scene from Giuseppe Sarti's Giulio Sabino that devolves into a grotesque parody. Eleonora exits, and the librettist and the composer again wrestle with the problems of the libretto for the new opera in which a lengthy dispute between the two men ensues. Tonina (whose character is a parody of opera buffa) enters and demands a role in the new opera. The composer and the librettist quickly concoct a vocal number for her. A quarrel then erupts between Eleonora and Tonina over which of them should sing the opera's opening aria. The scene culminates in having both sing their arias simultaneously. The composer and the librettist are able to pacify the two ladies by agreeing to a juxtaposition of the seria and buffa styles, thereby putting a conciliatory end to their quarrel. 2nd In this hysterical farce, Gianni Schicchi opens on the Donati family mourning the passing of their patriarch, Buoso. Their tears, however, are not real until they discover that Buoso has left his immense fortune to a monastery. Frantic and greedy, they call upon Gianni Schicchi, a self-made lower class man, to help them re-write the will. In a series of hilarious hijinks, secret deals, and one ridiculous plan, the family succeeds in tricking the doctor and the notary into thinking that Schicchi is Buoso. However, when the time comes, Schicchi leaves every great part of the fortune to himself! Schicchi reminds the audience that his fraud has not only made him rich and humbled the family, but brought together two young lovers; his daughter, Lauretta, and Rinuccio.

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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY

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BALLET Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Teatro alla Scala Production June 26th to July 9th

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DIE TOTE STADT

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OPERA Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold Teatro alla Scala New Production; German May 28th- June 17th Adapted from a novel by Georges Rodenbach, the story tells of Paul, a wealthy man mourning the death of his saintly young wife, Marie, for whome he maintains a veritable shrine in his home. By chance Paul has met a couquettish dancer, Marietta, an eerie look-alike for Marie. Paul struggles between fidelity to his wife's memory and attraction to Marietta- until the final scene in which all that has happened (including a fit of uncontrollable rage that drives him to strangle Marietta) turns out to have been a bad dream.

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MANON LESCAUT

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OPERA Composer: Giacomo Puccini Teatro alla Scala New Production; Italian Mar. 31st- April 27th As with Massenet's version, the opera starts with Manon being met off the coach at Amiens by her cousin. She is travelling to join a convent, but when she meets Des Grieux she takes the opportunity to escape from this fate, and the couple elope to Paris. The next act shows Manon, having abandoned Des Grieux, living in luxury with Geronte, but already bored and easily persuaded to return to the younger lover. Geronte then has her arrested, and she is next seen at the dockside at Le Havre, awaiting transportation to Louisiana. Des Grieux persuades the captain to let him sail with her, and he is still with her when she expires in the desert.

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La Traviata

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OPERA Composer: Giuseppe Verdi Teatro alla Scala Chorus, Ballet Company and Orchestra;Italian Jan. 11th- Mar. 19th A story of sickness, love, and death, La Traviata follows Violetta, a young courtesan who is ill with consumption as she falls, unwillingly, in love with a young man Alfredo. While she struggles with the fact that she is dying, she falls for him and they escape the city to live together in the French countryside. While living out their lives happily, Alfredo's father comes and guilts violetta into leaving Alfredo and returning to her old life. Alfredo, devastated, shows up at a party where Violetta has returned to her old love, and declares her a ***. Months later, Violetta is in her sickbed, slowly dying of consumption when Alfredo returns to her to declare his love. He arrives too late, and she dies in his arms.

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KHOVANSHCHINA

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OPERA Composer: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Teatro alla Scala New Production; Russian Feb. 27th- Mar 2019 The Khovanskys are rumoured to be plotting against the government's reforms. Andrei has abandoned his old lover Marfa, and is pursuing Emma. During a meeting between Ivan, Dosifei and Golitsyn, Shaklovity brings news than Peter's troops have arrived in Moscow and the Khovanskys are regarded as traitors. Ivan returns to his estate outside Moscow, but there he is assassinated. Golitsyn is condemned to exile. The Old Believers, including Dosifei, Marfa, and Andrei, choose martyrdom rather than submit to the religious reforms, and they immolate themselves.

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GIULIO CESARE

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OPERA Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel Teatro alla Scala New Production; Italian Oct. 18th- Nov. 7th After a great battle, Julius Caesar has followed his foe, Pompey, into Egypt. In an ill-thought attempt to please Ceasar, the Egyptians murder Pompey to the horror of Pompey's wife, Cornelia, and his son, Sextus. Meanwhile, Cleopatra decides to use her beauty to seduce Ceasar to help defeat her brother, Ptolemaus. After Ceasar pledges his loyalty to Cleopatra, Sextus challenges Ptolemaus to a duel in order to avenge the memory of his father. When Sextus kills Ptolemaus, Cleopatra becomes the Queen of Egypt.

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ONEGIN

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BALLET Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Teatro alla Scala Production Oct. 24th- Nov. 10th

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ATTILA

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OPERA Composer: Giuseppe Verdi Season Opening, Teatro alla Scala New Production; Italian Dec. 11th 2018- Jan. 8th The story takes place in 5th century in the city of Aquileia. Attila the Hun is attempting to conquer the world and destroying all that lies in his path. After invading Aquileia, the Huns take a group of Virgins that survived the assault. One of the virgins is the beautiful Odabella. Odabella agrees to be loyal to Attila but secretly plans to murder him to avenge the death of her father who died trying to protect the city. Meanwhile, her lover, Foresto, becomes jealous when he thinks that Odabella has betrayed Aquileia to join Attila the Hun. However, in the end, Odabella's plan works and she kills Attila.

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I MASNADIERI

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OPERA Composer: Giuseppe Verdi Teatro alla Scala New Production June 18th- July 7th As a result of plotting by his younger brother Francesco, Carlo is disinherited by their father, Count Moor. He joins a band of outlaws, becoming their leader. Francesco has his father incarcerated and assumes his title. The old man is in danger of starving to death, before he is rescued by Carlo and reconciled to him. His robber colleagues take their revenge on Francesco, but when Carlo is reunited with Amalia he cannot face the idea of her being dishonoured through contact with his fellow criminals. He therefore stabs her before giving himself up to the authorities.

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GISELLE

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BALLET Composer: Adolphe Adam Teatro alla Scala Production Sept 17th- Oct. 8th

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